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What the heck is the deal with iphone users Vs Android users

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I've thought for along time (and I'm definetely not alone on this) that Apple is kept afloat by a very small base of users, and I see examples of it all the time.

Flying home yesterday, the lady next to me is texting on her iPhone 4. Afterwards she pulls out her Macbook pro and starts editing a flash animation and starts listening to tunes on her iPod. I fell asleep for a bit, but when i woke up, she has....yes...an iPad!

I have several friends who are exactly the same way, and they have no business buying the overpriced junk given their financial situations, but they have to have it because Steve Jobs said it is revolutionary. I have even offered help if they want to install OSX on cheaper hardware. Nope, gotta have that Apple logo.
 
Apple are doing for the electronics industry what ikea has done for the furniture industry, that is churn out 'fung-shwey' goods for the mainstream. the products are similar, improve marginally (but strategically) every two years, really aren't much better then the competition , and have the hoodwinked masses falling over themselves for it.
the real joKe is when you physically show someone another product can not only do it, but do it better, these sheep then fall back to the quality if the product.

But lets be honest, the real reason most people here don't like apple products is because the communist trim behind it dictates what you can and can't do with your product. (this includes even holding it.) And the most jokes thing of it all? The media perception. While most phones would be marked down severely for NOT BEING ABLE TO MAKE A CALL! Most sites side stepped such a fundamental flaw when apple gave their latest phone out for review.

Now, I'm not sold on all this fight for your freedom crap but when big neutral sites start sub consiously favouring apple products, tossing good, valuable and essentially decent products out the window with the old slogan ' this is no iphone beater' then I take a stand. We take a stand, we here are people not fooled by gimmicks pulled by apple.

Just remember one thing, open platforms inspire innovation, closed ones do not. I guarantee you we well see more innovate ideas on or side if the fence in the next few years now that android is finally taking a bite into the smart phone market share.

Long live android
 
droid_freak said:
Did anyone see the new ONN report on the Apple Friend Bar. Check it out at the onion.

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Ok...THAT is hilarious!
New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products | The Onion - America's Finest News Source | Onion News Network

I cannot believe that there are people that will PAY workers of a corporation to listen to them!
The company is supposed to listen to it's customers without being paid to do so!

Want Apple to listen to your complaints or suggestions, make an appointment and PAY for it!

LOL!!!!
 
LoyalServant said:
Ok...THAT is hilarious!
New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products | The Onion - America's Finest News Source | Onion News Network

I cannot believe that there are people that will PAY workers of a corporation to listen to them!
The company is supposed to listen to it's customers without being paid to do so!

Want Apple to listen to your complaints or suggestions, make an appointment and PAY for it!

LOL!!!!
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You know that the onion is literally a joke newspaper right?
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I'm registered in an iPhone forum,too because i have an iPod touch.Believe me you are not the only one to hate.Almost every member of the iPhone forum Hates Android smartphones and Nokia smartphones.Once a guy posted a topic with a HTC Sense theme for iPhone and they all gone mad.Why are you doing this?I mean,these are just phones.iPhone has it's advantagies,Android,too.It's just another thoughtless fight.Moreover,it doesn't make any sense to limit yourself just with android,MAC,Symbian or whatever you have.
 
kdelov said:
I'm registered in an iPhone forum,too because i have an iPod touch.Believe me you are not the only one to hate.Almost every member of the iPhone forum Hates Android smartphones and Nokia smartphones.Once a guy posted a topic with a HTC Sense theme for iPhone and they all gone mad.Why are you doing this?I mean,these are just phones.iPhone has it's advantagies,Android,too.It's just another thoughtless fight.Moreover,it doesn't make any sense to limit yourself just with android,MAC,Symbian or whatever you have.
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I think it's because when people buy an expensive product they don't want to think that they could have bought a better product instead, so they rally together and get fanboyish about the product they chose and rubbish the most direct competition. With 24 month contracts and high prices smartphones are particuarly prone to this.
 
Alieno said:
The Consumer report confirmed a hardware default and offered a remedy (using a case) and stated that atm, they could not stand behind the iphone 4.

However, comsumer report also rated the iphone 4 as the "best smartphone on the market" , placing it well above the htc evo.

Again, it appears as though only some people are experiencing these issues, and if some people have an iphone 4 that is a lemon, then apple should take care of it.

Sent from my IPhone 4.
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Actually, tests have confirmed that ALL phones have this issue. However, tests have also confirmed that you may not notice the issue if you have STRONG Signal strength.
 
byteware said:
Actually, tests have confirmed that ALL phones have this issue. However, tests have also confirmed that you may not notice the issue if you have STRONG Signal strength.
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How is this one....
A few people I know actually have these phones and yeah, it drops calls like crazy.
I dread trying to talk to them because its just garbled mess.
They were not as bad when they used the older iPhones.. these new ones are worse.

HOWEVER... these boneheads are convinced this software 'fix' will resolve their issue so they will hold out for it.
Then the 30 day window goes by and you lose your chance to return it when this 'fix' actually fails to fix the phone ... as we all know it will.

So, then your stuck with a 2 year contract, a s--t data plan and a PHONE that cannot make calls, or hold onto them.

I wonder how many iFanatics are actually holding out for the 'fix' that will just show them their network sucks more than they think it does now.

Going anywhere with an iPhone user means giving them my nexus to make a call... never fails.
 
Why people make statements like "Apple products just work" is beyond me.

I like Apple products, but they don't always "Work".

Just 2 hours ago, My wife emailed and said her Iphone just went blank, and that nothing is working. This, after having a major battery issue for the last week or so. Apparently, she's getting only about 4 hours of battery life with very limited use. The kicker is that the phone is only 3 months old. (I just sent her a link for the droid incredible. Maybe she'll jump ship and join the Android Militia)

Our Imac has been a problem since day one. A CD drive that works only when it wants to, Constant freezing-up, iphoto is garbage, software glitches, you name it.

On the other hand, my 4-year old HP with Windows Vista (Yes, I said Vista) has been working flawlessly ever since I got it. The same goes with my son's $500 Acer laptop with Vista, not one problem in two years.

The fact is, when we spend big bucks on these "technological marvels" even the slightest glitches can drive us nuts.

Apple will keep putting out good stuff though. But it's my belief that Android is putting out better stuff.
 
Iphone 4. Good phone. Bad OS. Bad design. Bad Network. Give it a few more hardware buttons, port Android to it, and BAM. The "aPhone" (Android phone).
 
I wouldn't say its a bad phone,its just over hype and the way apple handle the issues going on been bad but they can do that cause folks are still buying the phone.
 
Bnice said:
I wouldn't say its a bad phone,its just over hype and the way apple handle the issues going on been bad but they can do that cause folks are still buying the phone.
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If you can drop 28 decibels of reception simply by holding the phone... it's a bad phone.
 
IOWA said:
Funny part about me is, when android first debuted, I hated it. I won't lie, it was useless to me. Buut from 1.5 on, google transformed it sooo fast I was massively impressed.

Tapatalk. Samsung Moment. Yep.
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Ditto.

I was not a fan. I re-upped with BlackBerry... LOL.

BNice: quite frankly, if I were Apple, and people were still buying a product with a serious defect, I would have ignored it... :D
 
I've had the HTC Incredible for about a week now and love it. I've never tried an iPhone. I'm on Verizon and I didn't have that choice. But I do have a 60gb iPod that I use every day and absolutely love that also. I tried other players before this one and none of them were half as easy to use as this the iPod.

I also run Ubuntu on my computer and love it. I am all for competition. It is good for us consumers. Someone earlier said that without the iPhone there would be no Droid. That's the way technology works. In incremental steps. Apple is a good innovator and others have built upon that success a little at a time.
 
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